Members of the Ohio-based Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen have voted to ratify a national five-year contract ...

Union Pacific’s proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern — an $85 billion deal that would create the first U.S.

BNSF Railway, one of the crown jewels of Warren Buffett’s sprawling Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, calls itself an environmental leader in the U.S. rail industry with the cleanest locomotive fleet ...

The U.S. has no federal limit on freight train length, leaving the cost-conscious rail industry free to experiment with giants like the 3.5-mile, nine-locomotive behemoth that chugged from Texas to ...

While it is impossible to summarize the rail industry’s year in a single article, there were certain key stories and themes ...

A freight train derailed in Iowa, causing about three dozen cars to pile up. The freight train operated by Union Pacific derailed around 5 p.m. local time Monday east of Glidden, Iowa, Union Pacific ...